What *is* Maternity Nursing?
- Caring for women and infants during the childbearing cycle
What are the components of women's health nursing?
- Meeting physical, psychologic, and social needs of women throughout th
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What *is* Maternity Nursing?
- Caring for women and infants during the childbearing cycle
What are the components of women's health nursing?
- Meeting physical, psychologic, and social needs of women throughout the lifespan
How did maternity nursing start?
- With Lay immigrant midwives and "granny midwives" in the South
What is the term of using hard sedatives for maternity nursing?
- twilight sleep
How did people in the 1700s do midwife stuff
- with like distraction
Who started the Children's Bureau and what did she do
- Lillian Wald, discovered when you keep things clean and seek help, they have better birth outcomes
Who stared "pain free birthing"
- Queen Victoria
What is the number one reason people have issue with getting maternity care? - Financial
What is Healthy People 2020's main goal?
- Attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death
Achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups
Creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all
Promoting quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
What is the 6th millennium development goal target?
- Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
What are the indicators for maternal millennium development goals being met –
16. Maternal mortality ratio (UNICEF-WHO)
17. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
(UNICEF-WHO)
What are the issues that can cause limited access to care?
- Financial, Cultural, and Gender issues
What do hospitals try to perform to help financial issues?
- Cost containment
What are ways to help the financial issues of maternity care?
- Prospective payment
What is prospective payment
- A fixed payment
What does prospective payment promote? - Efficiency
What is a major effect for maternity care? - length of stay
What is the major effect on maternity nursing? - discharge teaching
What are the health risks for childbearing women? - Socioeconomic Status/Factors
Nutrition
Substance use/abuse
Social, cultural, and genetic
Caring for women in maternity care exists across a woman's _____ - Lifespan
What does Maternity Care Health Indicators reflect? - Quality/access to healthcare
Overall maternal health
Public health practices
Socioeconomic conditions
What is infant mortality - death of a live birth between birth and the first birthday
What is neonatal mortality - death of a live birth between birth and < 28 days
What is maternal mortality - maternal deaths from live births, complications of pregnancy, or postpartum
What is perinatal mortality - includes stillbirths
What is stillbirth - an infant @ birth who demonstrates no signs of life such as breathing, heartbeat or muscle movements
What was the US maternal mortality rate in 2014 - 23.8/100,000 live births
Who has a higher maternal mortality rate, black or whites - blacks
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